Ford, Jennifer

(Jennifer Anne Ford)

PERSONAL: Ethnicity: "Australian." Education: Studied literature.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh Bldg., Shaftesbury Rd., Cambridge CB2 2RU, England.

CAREER: Writer. Formerly worked with government of New South Wales, Australia, as academic policy analyst.

WRITINGS:

Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams, and the Medical Imagination, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1998.

Contributor to books, including Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams of Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis, edited by Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper, Routledge (New York, NY), 2004. Contributor to periodicals, including History Workshop Journal.

SIDELIGHTS: In Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams, and the Medical Imagination, Jennifer Ford examines the impact of dreams and imagination on the work of English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834). Ford uses sources such as Coleridge's notebooks and letters to determine the poet's views on the relationship between perception and creation. She discusses the importance of dreams and imagination to romantic poets by using their writings and by investigating nineteenth-century medical theories.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Lancet, June 6, 1998, Gabrielle Murphy, review of Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams, and the Medical Imagination, p. 1744.

Medical History, January, 2000, George Rousseau, review of Coleridge on Dreaming.

Notes and Queries, December, 1999, L.M. Findlay, review of Coleridge on Dreaming.

Review of English Studies, May, 1999, Seamus Perry, review of Coleridge on Dreaming.

Romanticism, Volume 4, number 2, 1998, Daniel Danjiv Roberts, review of Coleridge on Dreaming.

Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 1998, Michael O'Neill, review of Coleridge on Dreaming, p. 14.